Archive for Social Networking

Automatically Update Facebook Fan Pages from Your Web Site

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Good news: each social media platform (ie. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) offers a new chance to meet prospective customers or partners. Bad news: it takes a lot of time to keep each platform updated with current info.

At MainStreetOpen we have a new application that will ease some of this burden. Our Facebook Page App will create a custom tab with dynamic content from your web site on your Facebook Fan Page. Our app pulls data from your web site – both static content (about us, contact) and dynamic (via your RSS feed) — and generates a custom tab with this data on your FB Fan Page.

The best part is that this information is updated automatically when you change the web site content. You NEVER have to update the Facebook Fan Page data. Our app will automatically keep it in sync with you web content.

The Facebook Page App is fully customizable. We can configure the content and graphics to match your site. This works with WordPress sites and any other content manager that generate an RSS feed.

Two examples:

http://facebook.com/ministrycom (Latest News tab) — data comes from http://ministrycom.org
http://www.facebook.com/pages/MainStreetOpen/40320181025 (Web Site tab) — data comes from http://www.mainstreetopen.com.

MainStreetOpen’s Facebook Page App starts at $300 plus customization. That’s a one time cost that will keep your Facebook Fan Page current without any effort from you. Contact Main Street for details.

WordPress + Facebook App = Synergy

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

If you are a facebook user, you may not appreciate the flood of apps and surveys that overwhelm your news feed every day. It’s true that the most popular apps are probably the most worthless. I recently had a project come up where we wanted to have better control over a facebook page, and have it feed directly from website data so the user wouldn’t have to keep up the content in different systems. The solutions came to me while reading the facebook app developer documentation. Read More→

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Facebook Is Now 4th Largest Site in the World

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

facebook-logoAccording to comScore, in June 2009 Facebook became the 4th largest web site in the world based on unique visitors. It trails only behind Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

With over 340 million unique visitors for the month, it easily blew past EBay, Amazon, AOL and the entire family of Wikipedia sites.

If you’ve been waiting to see if social networking was a fad before getting involved — it’s probably time to jump in. With almost twice as many unique users as EBay, I think it’s safe to say Facebook is reaching more than just a bunch of college kids.

Is your business or ministry on Facebook? We can help.

What are they saying about you? Using Google Alerts

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

alert-logo1Want to track your business’ publicity? Google Alerts are a free and easy way to monitor what people are saying about you on the internet.

This video shows you how to setup Google Alerts to and discusses several ways to use them.

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Multilingual Websites With WordPress

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

flagsThere are a few different ways to offer multiple language translations for your website.  Though new plugins may come out, the options simply break down into three types of solutions.

  1. Automatic Translation
    With this option you completely rely on software based translation to convert your content. Although it is an easy quick fix, these software based translations can produce translations that are not always accurate or in some cases, make no sense at all. This works best if you don’t care so much about how readable your site will be in other languages, but you want to increase visability or at least your perceived visibility. Read More→